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  • Cal HC’s trans person passport poser

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the passport authority to apprise on the status of a passport application of a transwoman on June 18. The transwoman applied for the passport in 2023.Anuprabha Das Majumder applied for a ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Two-week breather for Jayanth house

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on the proposed demolition of an illegal four-storey building owned by Kamarhati Trinamool leader Jayanth Singh on Pratap Rudra Lane of Ariadaha. Justice Kausik Chanda stayed the proposed ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Doc files stalk plaint against ex-schoolmate

    Kolkata: A 36-year-old Salt Lake doctor filed a formal complaint against her former schoolmate for alleged cyberstalking, harassment and issuing rape-and-death threats. She highlighted at length how the digital harassment affected her peace of mind for so many years.The ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Guj ex-CM’s kin in Kol mourn tragedy

    Kolkata: Umed Rupani (76), elder brother of former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani (68), was left shattered by a phone call from a relative in Gujarat that informed him of Air India's Ahmedabad-London flight crash, an hour after the ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Drama, says TMC after Suvendu’s tulsi march in city

    12 Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Thursday alleged that "BJP's mask was slipping off" after BJP legislators tried to disrupt the assembly on the Maheshtala clashes, staging a walkout and then marching to the Raj Bhavan in protest. Pointing to ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal’s tea to be covered by Centre’s weather-based insurance

    Kolkata: Centre has introduced weather-based insurance for some plantation crops, including tea. Tea in Bengal, Assam and Kerala is under the scheme.In a circular issued on June 10, Union ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare said: "DA&FW, in collaboration ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    2 women lose 11L to phone banking cyber crooks

    Kolkata: Two incidents of cyber fraud were reported in the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate area, where fraudsters duped two women of over Rs 11 lakh through phone banking scams.In the first incident, Ganga Agarwal, a resident of a complex in ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Embezzlement plaint against ex-hubby

    Kolkata: A woman from Kolaghat, East Midnapore, filed a police complaint against her former husband for allegedly stealing and forging a cheque to embezzle Rs 20 lakh from her bank account, police said on Wednesday.The complaint, filed at Shakespeare ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Snow will melt, spring will come again: Omar

    123 Srinagar: "What happened on April 22 will not be quickly forgotten. But the winter will go, snow will melt, and spring will come again," J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday.Abdullah's words, at a convention hosted by ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    HC orders action against 2 judges for letting accused go undefended in court

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court's Jalpaiguri circuit bench on Wednesday directed action against two judges — the chief judicial magistrate and the district and sessions judge (NDPS), Alipurduar — for not providing an advocate from legal aid to an ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    Rare op saves man with cardiac issue

    123 Kolkata: A rare cardiac surgery at a private hospital saved the life of a 72-year-old man who had an ‘aortic bulge'—a swelling or enlargement—in the major blood vessel (aorta) inside the chest. This bulge was dangerously close to ...

    13 June 2025 Times of India
    From ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ to ‘Raghu Dakat’, Tollywood faces heat challenge

    Kolkata: During the presentation of ‘Aranyer Din Ratri' at Cannes, Sharmila Tagore remembered how difficult it was to shoot for the film in May, 1969. It was so hot that the unit could shoot only between 5:30 am till ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Alfred Ford and wife keen to visit Jagannath temple in Digha

    KOLKATA: Alfred Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Co, will visit the Jagannath temple in Digha with his wife, Sharmila, sometime late this year or early next year, the couple confirmed."We eagerly look forward ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Jangalmahal's pride: Jana Mandi’s short film ‘Papaya’ earns global praise in Germany

    KHARAGPUR: A film from Jangalmahal has achieved international recognition, following its creator's 'Iron Man' success in Germany. Jana Mandi, who originates from Jangalmahal, continues to make waves internationally. His Bengali short film 'Papaya' was featured at the prestigious Eberhard ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    City cools down with healthy, seasonal drinks

    Mango madness, a signature summer drink with mango pulp and sesame seeds. Pic: Anindya Saha From refreshing, low-sugar concoctions to the undisputed reign of the magnificent mango, Kolkata’s cafes and restaurants are stirring up delightful beverages to beat the ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal makes minor tweaks to OBC list struck down by HC

    KOLKATA: Bengal's new OBC list, tabled by state govt in the assembly on Tuesday, has minor changes compared to the previous list. While the earlier list, struck down by the Calcutta High Court, had 113 OBC subgroups with 77 ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Warm and humid with chance of rain

    Kolkata's weather forecast for June 12, 2025, predicts a warm and humid day with temperatures ranging between 28.6°C and 36.5°C, accompanied by a 87% chance of rain and humidity levels around 61%.The city can expect patchy rainfall with 0.66 ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Doctors dread Covid-monsoon viral overlap, advise caution

    Kolkata: With the current Covid-19 situation showing no sign of slowing down, and with monsoon around the corner, health experts fear the surfacing of co-infections of Covid-19 with other viral, bacterial, and vector infections. From one active case until ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Rooftop restos submit docus, 2nd hearing likely

    Kolkata: The KMC received the requisite documents from three rooftop restaurants that participated in a hearing on May 28. The court-directed hearing on that day remained inconclusive as the owners of these restaurants failed to produce "some documents" needed ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Early Khuti Puja at clubs for more puja prep time

    Kolkata: Many Durga Puja organisers in the city held their Khuti Puja on Wednesday, making an early start to the months-long planning for Bengal's biggest festival. The puja coincided with Snan Yatra; it is usually held around Rath Yatra, ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake woman loses 8.8L in digi-arrest fraud

    12 Kolkata: A 63-year-old woman from Salt Lake fell victim to digital-arrest fraud in which she received WhatsApp video extortion calls in the name of Mumbai Police and the ED, losing Rs 8.8 lakh. She then continued to suffer ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Police arrest Howrah sex racket kingpin, son

    12 Howrah: After five days of evading arrest by changing her hideouts, Shweta Khan, alias Fultusi (43), finally landed in police net on Wednesday evening. The arrest came hours after the police picked up her 21-year-old son Aryan Khan ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Glimmer of hope: Kol prof discovers 2 firefly species

    12 Kolkata: Two new species of fireflies have been discovered by a city researcher who has been studying these fascinating insects for nearly a decade.Bethune College assistant professor Srinjana Ghosh found one firefly at the Sunderbans world heritage site ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    A day after KMC’s anti-vagrant drive, homeless people return to Park Circus and Gariahat

    1234 Kolkata: A day after KMC's drive on Tuesday to shift homeless people from pavements to its shelter homes, the vagrant families returned to their "spots" at Park Circus and Gariahat, complete with their belongings, on Wednesday. They refused ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Resume direct flights, reduce hotel tariffs to revive tourism in Kashmir’

    Srinagar: The travel trade industry has appealed to airlines to resume flights to Srinagar that were discontinued after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 so that tourism in Kashmir can revive. While all flights to Srinagar, Jammu and ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal makes minor tweaks to OBC list struck down by HC

    12 Kolkata: Bengal's new OBC list, tabled by state govt in the assembly on Tuesday, has minor changes compared to the previous list. While the earlier list, struck down by the Calcutta High Court, had 113 OBC subgroups with ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    JU engg faculty council discusses backlog report

    Kolkata: A Jadavpur University internal survey report on the issue of an increased number of engineering students failing in different subjects, especially in theory papers, was presented at the engineering faculty council meeting on Wednesday. TOI reported on Monday ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man held in Guj for Kalna boy’s torture

    Kalna: An imitation jewellery manufacturer, Hapal Mollah, was arrested from Rajkot, Gujarat, for allegedly thrashing a 10-year-old boy from Kalna. The boy, who worked at the unit, was reportedly strung upside down and beaten with iron rods by Mollah. ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    IIT-Kharagpur team wins national ideathon under ‘save water’ category

    Kharagpur: Out of 21 innovative solutions chosen from 1,384 entries received from across India, a sustainable waste management solution proposed by a IIT-Kharagpur team has bagged the first prize at a national ideathon, ‘Ideas4LiFE', under the ‘save water' category. ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Thief takes Covid cover to loot cafe in Kolkata

    Kolkata: A thief cited Covid protocols to conceal his identity by wearing a cap ‘pulled down upto the eyes' and masks, posed as a cleaning staffer and looted Rs 67,000 in cash from a popular café on Woodburn Road ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Jawan dials 112, gets lost bike back in 1 hr

    Kolkata: A CISF head constable posted at Kolkata International Airport, Suman Nag, dialled 112, the national helpline number, instead of 100 after his bike went missing from the Mahajati Nagar market near Birati on Tuesday, and within one hour ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Maheshtala clash: Cops hurt, govt vehicles set afire in West Bengal violence

    KOLKATA: Five policemen, including DC (Port) Harikrishna Pai , were injured and two govt vehicles were damaged and a bike was set ablaze when cops tried to stop clashes in the Rabindranagar-Akra near Maheshtala on Wednesday. Police resorted to ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Cops start arresting bus drivers for rash driving to make city roads safer

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police will now arrest bus drivers if they drive dangerously, in addition to imposing steep fines and recommending the temporary suspension of licences. According to the police, dangerous driving will include zigzag overtakes, jumping red ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man kills wife, child, survives suicide attempt

    12 Uttarpara: A woman and her four-year-old daughter were found dead— smeared in blood from knife injuries— at their rented accommodation at Bhadrakali area in Hind Motor on Wednesday morning. Beside Payel Chatterjee (24) and daughter Adrita (4) was ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    76-yr-old found dead with ligature marks

    Kolkata: A 76-year-old woman, Namita Paul, was found dead with ligature marks on her neck inside her locked house on Serpentine Lane on Wednesday evening. Cops from Muchipara PS have initiated a murder case and are investigating the angle ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Partha files bail plea in HC

    Kolkata: Former education minister Partha Chatterjee, prime accused in the cash-for-jobs case, filed a bail application before Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.Chatterjee, who has been in custody since July 2022, moved a "statutory bail" application under Section 436 of ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    HC commutes death sentence of ex who stabbed girl 45 times

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty awarded to a 24-year-old, for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 45 times, to life imprisonment with a 40-year bar on any remission plea. The HC said the murder was not the ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    HC to Suvendu: What do you have to fear inside assembly?

    12 Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari what he had to fear inside the assembly. The court posed the question to Adhikari's counsel while hearing a petition filed by the BJP neta seeking ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC moves privilege motion on Adhikari over CM comments

    Kolkata: A privilege motion submitted by TMC legislators against leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari was tabled in the state assembly on Wednesday and forwarded to the privilege committee. This was after Adhikari allegedly made "defamatory and untrue" comments against ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    STF seizes 1.5kg heroin, arrests 2 in Murshidabad raid

    12 Kolkata: Bengal Police's STF on Tuesday seized 1.5kg of heroin and cash worth over Rs 1 crore and arrested two persons during a raid in Murshidabad district's Shamsherganj.One of the suspects was identified as Jalal Uddin Barbhuiya (53) ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 11-yr-old girl

    Jalpaiguri: A special Pocso court in Jalpaiguri sentenced 31-year-old Haripada Roy to death for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl, categorising it as a "rarest of rare" case. The incident occurred on Sept 29, 2023 in Tuklimari, ...

    12 June 2025 Times of India
    Rs 2cr in cash and jewellery stolen from north Kolkata flat as family sleeps; thieves ate almonds during heist, went for almirah with jewellery’

    KOLKATA: Burglars broke into a five-bedroom apartment in a building on Ultadanga Main Road close to Hudco crossing early on Monday and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore. The family members, who were asleep during the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Howrah sex racket kingpin Shweta Khan’s son Ariyan, aide held; Fultusi still on the run

    Ariyan Khan and his aide were arrested in Kolkata for allegedly running a sex and pornography racket disguised as an event management firm, Ishara Productions. The arrest followed the escape of a victim who reported confinement and torture. NEW ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Probe RG Kar case more carefully: Court

    Kolkata: The Sealdah court, which is hearing the RG Kar rape-and-murder case, asked the CBI to give more "importance" to the investigation of a case that is "very sensitive".The agency, which submitted the fourth status report of the case ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘National security failure’: Mamata Banerjee slams Centre, lauds armed forces; skips ‘ Operation Sindoor’ mention

    KOLKATA: The Bengal assembly on Tuesday tabled a resolution lauding the armed forces’ response to the Pahalgam carnage without mentioning “Operation Sindoor” by name as CM Mamata Banerjee demanded the Centre’s resignation for it's failure to hunt down the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Our life’s savings stolen’: North Kolkata family robbed of Rs 2 crore in night heist; while family asleep

    KOLKATA: Burglars broke into a five-bedroom apartment in a building on Ultadanga Main Road close to Hudco crossing early on Monday and decamped with cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore. The family members, who were asleep during the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Green corridor for airlifted Tripura patient

    Kolkata: ESI Hospital Joka, along with Kolkata Police, on Tuesday created a green corridor for a brain haemorrhage patient, who was brought to the city airport by an air ambulance from Tripura. The patient, Gourab Pal (23) is a ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Plea in HC against Jayanth house razing

    12 Kolkata: A petitioner, claiming to be a resident of an illegal four-storey house at Ariadaha under the Kamarhati Municipality, on Tuesday challenged the demolition notice served by the civic body, as directed by the Calcutta High Court.The house ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Digha temple ready for Snan Yatra today

    12 Digha: Lord Jagannath will make his last public appearance on Wednesday during the royal bathing ceremony, ‘Snan Yatra', ahead of his fortnight-long seclusion.The Jagannath Temple in Digha has erected a special pavilion, where idols of Jagannath, Balaram and ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Teen slashed for protesting friend’s harassment

    Kolkata: A 19-year-old college student was attacked with a sharp weapon at Entally early on Sunday after he and two of his friends confronted a group of men, who allegedly harassed a female friend. Aditya Gupta suffered slash wounds ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    BJP mantri trains infiltration, law & order guns on TMC

    Kolkata: Union minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday criticised Bengal govt for staying silent on the issue of infiltration through its borders. He accused Trinamool of "assisting infiltrators from across the border to settle in the state". He also alleged ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Unsafe for both us, homeless: Keep up pressure, residents tell KMC

    123 Kolkata: Pavement dwellers in Gariahat and Park Circus declined to shift to homeless shelters on Tuesday, while local residents and business owners expressed hope that KMC would convince them to relocate, citing safety concerns for both the street ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Backwardness, not religion, sole criterion for fresh OBC survey in Bengal: Mamata

    123 Kolkata: "Backwardness, and not religion, was the sole criterion for the fresh OBC survey in Bengal," CM Mamata Banerjee told the state assembly on Tuesday, tabling the report which has identified 140 communities in the OBC category.While there ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC talks tough before meet with 3 rooftop resto owners

    12 Kolkata: The KMC buildings department remained firm in its stand on rooftop establishments ahead of the hearing, when owners of three such establishments are to present their documents and argue their case for reopening. Wednesday is the last ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Traffic snarls: Siliguri-Darjeeling one-way trip now takes over 6 hrs

    123 Darjeeling: Darjeeling is witnessing a massive influx of tourists this season, turning the otherwise serene hill station into a bustling hotspot. What was once a scenic three-hour drive is now stretching to five or even six hours, as ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Two cyclonic systems set to bring showers to parched city

    Kolkata: Two cyclonic circulations — one over north Odisha and the neighbourhood and another over the central Bay of Bengal — teamed with a trough is set to trigger spells of thundershowers in most parts of Bengal, including Kolkata, ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Minor in hosp for delivery, hubby faces rape charge

    Kolkata: A minor, a resident of the Hastings area who was admitted to SSKM Hospital to deliver a child on June 2, did not expect it would lead to an FIR against her husband, also a minor, for rape ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Digi-arrest con poses as Kol IPS officer, dupes 81-yr-old of 88L

    Kolkata: An 81-year-old resident of Rabindrapally in Kestopur lost Rs 88 lakh to a sophisticated cyber fraud scheme where one of the scammers posed as the joint CP of Kolkata Police. The others posed as telecom officials and other ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Edu min signals admission start from next week

    Kolkata: State education minister Bratya Basu on Tuesday hinted that the centralised admission portal would open earlier than last year, and the academic session would start following UGC norms. Last year, the portal opened on June 19.Basu made the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Sonam spends 4 hrs at Kol airport on way to Guwahati

    Kolkata: Sonam Raghuvanshi, the 25-year-old from Indore accused of hiring contract killers to murder her newly-wed husband Raja during their honeymoon in Meghalaya 18 days ago, spent around four hours at Kolkata airport on Tuesday evening.A four-member police team ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Hwh sex racket kingpin was in jail under Arms Act

    Howrah: Howrah resident Shweta Khan, also known as Fultusi Begum, accused of running sex and trafficking rackets and supplying drugs, had been in 2015 jailed under the Arms Act for using a firearm during a dispute over property two ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    DSP challenges custodial violence order

    Kolkata: The West Midnapore deputy superintendent of police on Tuesday moved the Calcutta HC division bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, challenging a single bench order on custodial violence at a West Midnapore police station, ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Biz zone under CCTV watch to check crimes, respond to emergencies

    12 Kolkata: The Kolkata Police will install 53 more CCTV cameras at 40 spots in KMC's ward 23, focusing on Posta and Jorasanko, where daily transactions amount to several crores. The initiative comes in response to recurring thefts, pickpocketing, ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Man who stabbed cops is Bangladeshi

    Kolkata: A man who attacked and stabbed two police officers outside the North Port police station last Saturday was identified as an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh who was living in the city under a false identity since 2006.The accused, ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Bengal produces 1,623cr eggs in FY24, surpasses nat’l avg

    Kolkata: Bengal surpasses the national average in egg production with 1,623.9 crore eggs produced in the fiscal year 2023-24, accounting for 11.37% of India's total production, according to data presented in the state assembly on Tuesday.This places Bengal fourth ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Maruti Suzuki attempts to change image with six-airbag ‘safety shield’

    Kolkata: Maruti Suzuki is seeking to alter the perception that its vehicles are low on safety features by making six airbags a standard feature across 97% of its product portfolio, including all variants in entry-level cars such as the ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    15 yr+ buses & cabs to get new life after retirement

    Kolkata: In a major policy shift, the state govt is set to relax its 15-year limit on commercial vehicles, particularly buses, opting instead for a more nuanced approach based on vehicle condition and environmental impact. The revised notification will ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC moves privilege motion against Suvendu

    12 Kolkata: TMC ministers Chandrima Bhattacharya, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and Aroop Biswas moved a privilege motion in the assembly on Tuesday against state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari.Speaker Biman Banerjee said the privilege would be considered on Wednesday, as Adhikari ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Shopkeeper who ‘abetted’ 12-year-old boy’s suicide held

    12345 Tamluk: The shopkeeper-cum-civic volunteer accused of abetting the suicide of a 12-year-old boy in Panskura on May 18 has been arrested. Subhankar Dikshit was apprehended on Sunday after cops tracked his phone. He was remanded in 14 days ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    43 more XFG cases takes total tally in state to 49

    Kolkata: The new Covid-19 variant, XFG, was found in 43 more Covid-positive samples in Bengal during whole genome sequencing. This brings the total number of XFG variant cases in Bengal to 49. While the number of samples being sequenced ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    KMC’s anti-vagabond drive runs into resistance, ops called off

    123 Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and cops on Tuesday started a drive, for the first time this year, to oust pavement dwellers from several prime city areas but faced stiff resistance and called off the drive. Though ...

    11 June 2025 Times of India
    Jawan, woman’s bodies found in North Sikkim

    Kalimpong: Two bodies were found on Sunday and Monday in North Sikkim near the site of the Army camp in Chaten, which was swept away in a landslide following heavy rainfall in the region last week.The first body, found ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Unable to take family pressure, Howrah sex racket kingpin’s daughter killed self in 2021

    123456 Howrah: Shweta Khan, alias Fultusi, in her 40s, and her 26-year-old son, Ariyan, who co-owned Ishara Productions, allegedly ran an adult film and prostitution racket under the guise of an event management firm from their rented apartment in ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    'Ishika was desperate to leave home': Unable to take family pressure, Howrah sex racket kingpin's daughter killed self in 2021

    HOWRAH: Shweta Khan, alias Fultusi, in her 40s, and her 26-year-old son, Ariyan, who co-owned Ishara Productions, allegedly ran an adult film and prostitution racket under the guise of an event management firm from their rented apartment in Howrah's ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Many in Kolkata buy India’s first climate insurance; heat, rain & cold risks included in policy

    Many in Kolkata buy India’s first climate insurance; heat, rain & cold risks included in policy (Photo: ANI) KOLKATA: Over 600 Kolkatans have bought the country's first 'climate change' insurance policies rolled out by a private insurer offering ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Woman loses gold worth 20L from PSU bank locker

    Kolkata: A 64-year-old doctor, Chhabi Chaudhury Bose, who works with KMC and owns a joint account with her 90-year-old mother, alleged a theft of approximately 200 grams of gold, valued at around Rs 20 lakh, from her bank locker ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Monsoon stalls, set for delayed arrival as Kolkata sweats it out

    Kolkata: Speculations of an early onset notwithstanding, monsoon is set to be delayed yet again in Kolkata and south Bengal. With no rain-triggering system forming over the Bay of Bengal and monsoon currents being slow, the rains will not ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Digha Jagannath temple rolls out prasad for 1.4 crore Bengal families

    12 Kolkata: Three hundred kilograms of ‘khoa,' a dry milk ‘kheer' that is a key ingredient in sweets, was offered to Lord Jagannath at the temple in Digha before being dispatched to 23 districts in refrigerated vans on Monday. ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    ‘Each One Plant One’ celebrates member’s birthday with ‘tree party’

    1234 Kolkata: It was a birthday party at Subhash Sarovar on Sunday without any cakes being cut or balloons decorating the podium. The organisers, mostly professionals from different walks of life, instead planted 47 saplings around the lake to ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Climate change on radar, insurers line up extreme heat, rain cover

    123 Kolkata: About 650 Kolkatans have recently bought short-term ‘climate-change' policy — parametric policy in insurance jargon — that has been rolled out by a private insurer. A second private player and a PSU insurer are also set to ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Orange, Yellow Lines set to meet 400m ahead of airport station

    12 Kolkata: Even as the Metro Yellow Line from Noapara to the airport awaits inspection by the Commission of Railway Safety (CRS) that will pave the way for its commissioning, work is set to commence on the convergence of ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC, BJP war of words over ‘dual voter, infiltrator’ claims

    Kolkata: Two controversies surrounding infiltration, 240 kilometres apart, roiled Bengal politics and prompted TMC and BJP to spar on Monday.In the first incident, photos of Niutan Das, a Kakdwip voter said to be close to TMC, surfaced, which showed ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    48-yr-old N Kol man season’s 2nd death linked to Covid

    Kolkata: A 48-year-old north Kolkata resident, who tested positive for Covid-19, died last Friday at a govt hospital. While the state is yet to update this case as a coronavirus-related death, Babulal Singha's death certificate mentions ‘Covid-19 with septic ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    CM: Cov is now endemic, Bengal is fully prepared

    12 Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged people not to panic over the current Covid situation, reminding them that the pandemic had now turned endemic. "That means it's a manageable local health issue, not a global emergency. ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Report-debris drive now a round-the-year fixture

    12 Kolkata: Following the success of the recently concluded week-long cleanliness drive in New Town, in which the authorities received over 300 complaints of littering and waste dumping from locals, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is now ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    2 KP cops suspended after bribe video

    1234 Kolkata: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) and a constable of Kolkata Police, posted at North Port Police Station, were suspended pending enquiry following a widely circulated video, which purportedly showed them demanding bribe from a motorist on Howrah Bridge ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Influencer case complainant held

    Kolkata: Garden Reach resident Wazahat Khan Qadri (30) was finally arrested on Monday, after being on the run for around a week, evading both local and Assam Police.Police had conducted raids in Digha and Howrah. Qadri was finally arrested ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    WBCPCR awards cops, childcare units

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights recognised six police officers and three child care facilities, for their outstanding work in child protection. The ceremony was held on the occasion of ‘State Child Protection Day' on ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Drive to remove vagrants from roads

    Kolkata: The KMC and the police will begin a drive to remove vagabonds and their belongings from major thoroughfares and under flyover spaces. According to a KMC source, the drive will start from Mullickbazar and then move on to ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    HC to hear protest docs today

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is likely to hear the plea by RG Kar doctors Debashis Haldar, Asfakulla Naiya, and Aniket Mahato against their transfers out of RG Kar Medical College Hospital. Justice Amrita Sinha may hear their appeal. ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    78-year-old bizman found dead in his four-storey S Kol residence

    Kolkata: The decomposed body of a 78-year-old businessman, Ashutosh Das, was discovered at his four-storey residence near Ganguly Bagan under Netaji Nagar police station on Monday morning. Cops reached the scene following reports of a foul smell emanating from ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    House session starts with tributes to terror victims

    12 Kolkata: Bengal assembly convened its two week-long monsoon session on Monday and offered condolences to victims of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. As the House assembled, speaker Biman Banerjee condoled the deaths of 26 people.Obituary references were ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu leads BJP rally on Anubrata turf

    12 Kolkata: BJP organised a rally to protest against Trinamool strongman Anubrata Mondal on his home turf Bolpur on Monday for his remarks against the local IC. LOP Suvendu Adhikari, who led the ‘Nari Samman Yatra', said: "Police should ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Nawsad kin TMC gen secy, Sabyasachi Barasat dist chair

    12 Kolkata: Furfura Sharif Pirzada Kasem Siddiqui, cousin of ISF MLA Nawsad, was made TMC general secretary on Monday in a reshuffle. Furfura Sharif, a Sufi shrine and its Pirzadas wield significant influence over Bengali-speaking Muslim voters in Bengal.Kasem ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    HC slams NIA’s ‘casual approach’ in Darivit case

    12 Kolkata: Criticising NIA's "casual approach" for not submitting a report in the 2018 Darivit school firing case, Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the agency to file it by July 9. On Sept 20, 2018, two youths were ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    TMC slams BJP over ‘sindoor-selling’ remark

    12 Kolkata: TMC targeted BJP's state leadership on Monday over alleged derogatory remarks about women and the freezing of central funds. The criticism came at a press conference after leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari's comments about sindoor and bangles ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Caught on camera: Two women held for stealing gold from Kolkata jewellery store; hiding it in undergarments

    Representative image KOLKATA: Two young women were arrested on Sunday for stealing gold ornaments from a jewellery shop at Nagerbazar Sonapatty in ward number 22 of South Dum Dum Municipality. The duo concealed the ornaments in their undergarments and ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Sarod damaged on flight, musicians report mishandling woes

    123456 Kolkata: Sarod player and composer Arnab Bhattacharya found the oversized bag carrying his sarod broken and the instrument damaged when he reached Abu Dhabi. He travelled from Kolkata to Mumbai and then boarded the flight to Abu Dhabi. ...

    10 June 2025 Times of India
    Summer vegetables rates soar with temperature; brinjal, capsicum touch 100-mark in Kolkata

    Summer veggie rates soar with temp; brinjal, capsicum touch 100-mark KOLKATA: After weeks of stable supply and reasonable pricing, vegetable prices in Kolkata are witnessing a sudden surge due to extreme heat and inadequate pre-monsoon rainfall. Traders and consumers ...

    9 June 2025 Times of India
    Dive into the world of delicious ‘makha’

    Model Sushmita Saha relishes kancha aam makha and jamun makha. Pic: Anindya Saha Aam, jaam or peyara, the next word that sits well with these is makha. It is a feeling, a tradition, and the taste of nostalgia ...

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